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{{short description|Public holiday in Commonwealth realms}}
▲The '''King's Official Birthday''' (alternatively the '''Queen's Official Birthday''' when the [[Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realms|monarch]] is female) is the selected day in most [[Commonwealth realm]]s on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated in those countries. It does not necessarily correspond to the date of the monarch's actual birth.
The sovereign's birthday was first officially marked in the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] in 1748, for [[George II of Great Britain|King George II]]. Since then, the date of the king or queen's birthday has been determined throughout the [[British Empire]] and, later, the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], either by royal proclamations issued by the sovereign or viceroy, or by statute laws passed by the local parliament.
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